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Impediments to Regulatory Compliance of Requirements in Contractual Systems Engineering Projects: A Case Study

Impediments to Regulatory Compliance of Requirements in Contractual Systems Engineering Projects:... Impediments to Regulatory Compliance of Requirements in Contractual Systems Engineering Projects: A Case Study MD RASHED I. NEKVI and NAZIM H. MADHAVJI, University of Western Ontario Large-scale contractual systems engineering projects often need to comply with myriad government regulations and standards as part of contractual obligations. A key activity in the requirements engineering (RE) process for such a project is to demonstrate that all relevant requirements have been elicited from the regulatory documents and have been traced to the contract as well as to the target system components. That is, the requirements have met regulatory compliance. However, there are impediments to achieving this level of compliance due to such complexity factors as voluminous contract, large number of regulatory documents, and multiple domains of the system. Little empirical research has been conducted in the scientific community on identifying these impediments. Knowing these impediments is a driver for change in the solutions domain (i.e., creating improved or new methods, tools, processes, etc.) to deal with such impediments. Through a case study of an industrial RE project, we have identified a number of key impediments to achieving regulatory compliance in a large-scale, complex, systems engineering project. This project is an upgrade http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS) Association for Computing Machinery

Impediments to Regulatory Compliance of Requirements in Contractual Systems Engineering Projects: A Case Study

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Impediments to Regulatory Compliance of Requirements in Contractual Systems Engineering Projects: A Case Study MD RASHED I. NEKVI and NAZIM H. MADHAVJI, University of Western Ontario Large-scale contractual systems engineering projects often need to comply with myriad government regulations and standards as part of contractual obligations. A key activity in the requirements engineering (RE) process for such a project is to demonstrate that all relevant requirements have been elicited from the regulatory documents and have been traced to the contract as well as to the target system components. That is, the requirements have met regulatory compliance. However, there are impediments to achieving this level of compliance due to such complexity factors as voluminous contract, large number of regulatory documents, and multiple domains of the system. Little empirical research has been conducted in the scientific community on identifying these impediments. Knowing these impediments is a driver for change in the solutions domain (i.e., creating improved or new methods, tools, processes, etc.) to deal with such impediments. Through a case study of an industrial RE project, we have identified a number of key impediments to achieving regulatory compliance in a large-scale, complex, systems engineering project. This project is an upgrade

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ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS) – Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Dec 23, 2014

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